US releases money to Iran for vaccines

[Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo] 24 Dec 2020. Iran has secured an approval from the United States to transfer funds for coronavirus vaccines from overseas, the central bank chief has said, as its daily death toll fell to a three-month low. Central Bank Governor Abdolnaser Hemmati said an Iranian bank had received backing from the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control to transfer the money to a Swiss bank to pay for the vaccines. “They [Americans] have put sanctions on all our banks. They accepted this one case under the pressure of world public opinion,” Hemmati told state TV. Source: Aljazeera